Idaho State Historical Society Digital Collections

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The Browsing Photographs Collection is comprised of a vast array of subjects and locations from across Idaho. Biographies, general subjects, Native American groups, Idaho towns and Boise subjects come together to collectively form the Browsing Collection. This collection will be updated often, with the potential for thousands of …

Bob Lorimer was a writer, columnist and photographer in the Treasure Valley during the 1960s and 1970s. His photographs capture everyday life and special events as they occured throughout the valley. This collection houses photos of historic events and depicts historic buildings and neighborhoods.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17 to 23. A part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of …